Re: GPU Acceleration
| From: | Jonah H. Harris | Date: | Sat, 13 Nov 2010 15:28:00 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: GPU Acceleration | ||
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On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Stan Vass <sv_forums@fmethod.com> wrote:
> PHP doesn't have anything significant that would benefit from a GPU right
> now.
>
> As a more realistic goal, (1) APC should become a standard part of the PHP
> distro, and later (2) part of the Zend Engine. Once this is done, (3) the
> next step is JIT, and few months ago there was some work done on LLVM for
> this, but I never heard about it since. And only then, esoteric things like
> running on the GPU can be realistically pondered.
>
> So, long way ahead...
>
Agreed.
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Jonah H. Harris
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